Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:53:19 +0200 | | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.25.11-97.fc9 (P): idr_remove called for id=236 which is not allocated |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > pty: If the administrator creates a device not for a ptmx slave don't error > > From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> > > > The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any > other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not > the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics > ---
Thanks, this seems to work for me. I do get a "SLAP" in dmesg each time, however :-)
Vegard
-- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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